Sensitive Quotes - Page 36

• Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Ignorance, Stuff

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• The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

  Susan Sontag

  Change, Historical, Intellectual

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• It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

  Nan Fairbrother

  People, Tragedy, Emotion

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

  Alfred Kazin

  Tragedy, Society, Development

  ALFRED kAZIN (1956). “ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature”

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• Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Love You, Soul

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.142, Random House

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• We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Intelligent, Self

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• I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Artist, Too Much, Paid

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• I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, People, Movement

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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  Fannie Flagg

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  David Cronenberg

  Hurt, Personality, Guy

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• When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

  Chuck D

  Understanding, Watches, World

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• You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.

  Eliza Dushku

  People, Sweetest, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Government, Design

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• The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Research, Labs

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• Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Design, Administration

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• I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  People, Energy, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

  Nadia Ali

  Believe, Artist, Persons

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• You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Girl, Guy, Lizzy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  Margaret Chan

  Epidemics, Malaria, Mosquitoes

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• I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

  Andy Dick

  Who I Am, Hats, Cry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

  Fred Durst

  Eye, Roots, People

  "Interview: Fred Durst on “The Longshots”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. August 15, 2008.

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• And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Eight, Years, Matter

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• We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Views, Talking

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Forever, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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